[Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Doug Bishop
Hello, Was wondering if anyone can shed a light on this subject as I could not find any documentation specific to this. I am currently running an ovirt 3.2 cluster with 5 hosts with local storage. I have a dedicated box running ovirt engine. I would like to have the ability to run an

Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Dan Yasny
There are plenty of options: 1. Run the engine as a VM under a local libvirt, and cluster the libvirt VM as a protected service using RHCS (well tested and documented) 2. Use the self hosted engine (recently announced, coming up tech) 3. Use any other clustering technology you like best, an engine

Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Doug Bishop
, September 25, 2013 12:14 PM To: Doug Bishop Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability There are plenty of options: 1. Run the engine as a VM under a local libvirt, and cluster the libvirt VM as a protected service using RHCS (well tested and documented) 2. Use the self

Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Doug Bishop
www.controlscan.com From: Dan Yasny [dya...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:31 PM To: Doug Bishop Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability The classic answer here would be to use DRBD to replicate the engine storage

Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Dan Yasny
From: Dan Yasny [dya...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:31 PM To: Doug Bishop Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability The classic answer here would be to use DRBD to replicate the engine storage to a standby host's local storage. On Wed

Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Doug Bishop
www.controlscan.com From: Dan Yasny [dya...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:34 PM To: Doug Bishop Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability The official way is to have a SAN or NFS in place, so you can allocate

Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

2013-09-25 Thread Dan Yasny
@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability The official way is to have a SAN or NFS in place, so you can allocate a LUN for the engine. Multiple hosts/DCs with local storage are quite the corner case IMO. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Doug Bishop dbis...@controlscan.com